ersh Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 [blurb]So, last minute at the end of last week, I found out I was tentatively going to be in the studio with the Trews recording a track with Garth Hudson for an upcoming Band tribute CD produced by Garth. Saturday night, while playing a gig in Sarnia, we found out Garth wanted to recorsd the next day in the afternoon, as Neil Young had cancelled his slot due to a bad throat. (!) We rushed back to Toronto Sunday morning, got to the studio in the mid afternoon, and worked out the track we were gonna do - Move to Japan off Jericho. Garth's choice for us. [/blurb] He showed up a while later, came in and shook all our hands, and sat down so we could talk about the song. About one minute into the converstaion he asked who the keyboard player was, and I said it was me... and we immediately went into some technical keyboard dialogue for about 20 minutes. Just talkin gear, players, techniques... all kinds of stuff. Real nice guy... easy to talk to. Garth's pretty out there. He's got a bad hunch these days, and you have to have some patience with him too... in the middle of talking about his old organ he played with Band, he suddenly said, in a slow low voice... "Oh sorry, I was thinking about a dead raccoon on the end of string." And he cracked up! But he's still full of ideas, wit and charm. We figured the arrangement out and all went to the live room... Garth's set up was in there. I played a Rhodes on the song, and he played on the track with us. Sat in on the beds and jammed right along... He left after we got the bass and drums, and went to sit in with the Barenaked Ladies at massey Hall.... we tracked for a while more... and when he came back we had pretty much finished the song. We listened to the track a bunch, he gave us some ideas and pointers, and generally seemed to like what we'd done. The emd of the song is me soloing and then turning it over to him. At the end of the night, I was showing him a pedal I use (Blue Line 6) and told him it sounded like the intro to King Harvest, to which he told me that "the original pedal was a Uni Vibe. Richard used to play it, and keep it on top the piano and work it back and forth, back and forth, back and forth." Too much... We're going back to finish it later this week, so I guess I'll see him again. He's without a doubt my number one musical hero. I'm insanely blown away by last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam stone Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 that is fu@kin awesome manyou must be on cloud 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ersh Posted December 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 cloud 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cully Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 AMAZING. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timouse Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 wow. what a treat that must have been. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewRider Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 That's awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deranger Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 cool, nice pic. you guys look the same. thats you in another 40 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorgnor Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 Right on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booche Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 Sans hyperbole, this is the single greatest post on this board. Ever. ::standing ovation for 'ersh::I cant even begin to imagine the elation you must have felt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c-towns Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 ask him to sit in on the 27th awesome experience man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davey Boy 2.0 Posted December 9, 2008 Report Share Posted December 9, 2008 WOW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted December 9, 2008 Report Share Posted December 9, 2008 wicked! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted December 9, 2008 Report Share Posted December 9, 2008 Awe-struck.Aloha,Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Funk Dawg Posted December 9, 2008 Report Share Posted December 9, 2008 congrats Jeff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AWeeJig Posted December 9, 2008 Report Share Posted December 9, 2008 Whoa! Right on Jeff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boiler Posted December 9, 2008 Report Share Posted December 9, 2008 right on man, that's really cool. Congrats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamilton Posted December 9, 2008 Report Share Posted December 9, 2008 Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigger Posted December 9, 2008 Report Share Posted December 9, 2008 you are Officially a rock star ,right on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottieking Posted December 9, 2008 Report Share Posted December 9, 2008 I know what a fan you are, 'ersh. Somedays are with you for the rest of your life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwa. Posted December 9, 2008 Report Share Posted December 9, 2008 I have to agree with Booche man, i haven't read a thread on this board in a long time that has made me smile like this one. Having known how big a fan you are accentuated that big time. That's one for the ages Congrats buddy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hartamophone Posted December 9, 2008 Report Share Posted December 9, 2008 Unreal man. I would say you were lucky, but I know that you've paid some serious dues and have earned a moment like this.Good on 'ya. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForbinHood Posted December 9, 2008 Report Share Posted December 9, 2008 2n'd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guigsy Posted December 9, 2008 Report Share Posted December 9, 2008 22nd'd. unbelievable dude, that's massive. what an opportunity for ya.. so awesome, i had to read it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ersh Posted December 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2008 It was amazing to interact with him like that, to hear his parts soloed in the mix, to having him tell us that Move to Japan is a protest song and he wanted us to play it more 'metal', to having him describe some of that parts he played and say that they were just saftey lines that he's able to fall back on if he needs to... even to learn that he likes kit kat bars.He paid me some really, really nice compliments too. Makes me smile.On a side note.... the owner of the studio we recorded in, a good friend of Garth's, is actually in possesion of THE Basement Tapes. The original 36 reels of 1/4" 2 track tape! Apparently there's loads of stuff they're restoring from them that's never made it out. A release is planned after some legalties get cleared up so I hear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevO Posted December 9, 2008 Report Share Posted December 9, 2008 great story! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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